Welcome

Dear Visitor,

Welcome to my very new website on strange and peculiar things to do in homebrewing beer and other stuff.

On this homepage, I will post updates as to what’s new. Please register so that you can interact with the comments on the various pages and so that I can (optionally) send you emails to keep you updated on developments.

Please also, visit the About page to get some background and advice on how to use this site.

The website content is still a work in progress and, although much of the practical and experimental aspects have been completed for most topics, there is still much to write-up and format. Consequently, only a small fraction of the total content will be available on the site on the day of publication. Other topics will appear, hopefully, every few days.

The list of current topics being worked is given below. I will cross them off as they get posted.

Topics Under Construction 

  • Techniques
    • Mashing
      • Simple mashing with fly sparge
      • Serial mashing
      • Parti-gyle
      • Long mashes
      • Mashing wheat and other raw grains
    • Cryo-Concentrating
      • Prefermentation
      • Postfermentation
    • Late Additions to primary fermentation
    • Making sour ales
      • Wort
      • Spontaneous fermentation
      • Aging
    • Adding fruit
      • Preparing
      • Pasteurizing
      • Storing
    • Storing yeast
    • Measuring beer carbonation
    • Using oak
      • Finding oak
      • Cutting
      • Toasting
      • Adding to beer
    • Mulling beer with a hot iron
  • Recipes
    • Rapid, pressure cooked beer
    • Lentil beer
    • Really strong beers (>20% ABV)
    • Whoat beer
    • + Much more
  • Projects
    • Build a cheap and efficient mash tun
    • Build a deluxe counter pressure bottle filler
    • Build a monster magnetic stirrer
    • Build an airlock bubble counter
    • Build a device to measure beer ABV%
    • Build a photometer to measure beer color
    • Build a weighing scale to measure alcohol production during fermentation
    • Build a beer mosquito trap
    • Build a clip to stop airlock stoppers falling out of carboys
    • Project to tart up bottle caps
    • Barrel Ullagometer
    • Build a device for propane/natural gas burner temperature control
    • Build a device to stop boilovers 
    • Build a device to measure beer IBUs
    • Build an intelligent beer mat
    • Build a device for speeding up carbonation in kegs
    • Build a Peltier-cooled enclosure for a carboy or bucket
    • Build a trub yeast extractor
    • Build a mobile barrel stillage 
  •  Technologies
    • Using Arduino-type microcontroller units in brewing
    • Using 3D printers in brewing

The blogs below will give details of any recent additions. You can also register to get emails updating you on new additions as they happen.

Hopefully, there will be something here that you will like and find useful. If there’s anything on this list or you would like to put on this list, please leave a comment or email using the links below. To leave a comment, you will need to register. Only a minimum of information is requested – mainly your email address. This information will not appear on this website or be given to anyone else. If you are registered you can optionally receive emails giving you updates on the progress of this website.

Thank you for visiting,

Andy Tipler

Chief Cheapskate and Anarchist